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  2. THE BIGGEST BRIDEGROOM ON EARTH.

    The United States is happy in being able to claim the biggest bridegroom in the world. He is Mr. W. T. Brinson, of Waycross, Ga., and weighs no less than ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 553 words
  3. DIVERS' FIGHT UNDER WATER.

    A fifteenth century gun, with which a romantic story is associated—no other, in fact, than a fight on the bottom of the ocean between the divers who effected its salvage—is now on ...

    Article : 189 words
  4. MERRY WIDOW WALTZ.

    The walts of "The Merry Widow" has reached London, and within an hour or two of its being performed for the first time in Daly's Theatre, people were singing it as they went home. It is ...

    Article : 255 words
  5. ROOSEVELT'S REVOLVER.

    A humorous incident occurred recently, which has set Washington society laughing. President Roosevelt had been invited to lay the cornerstone of the new Masonic temple, and during the ...

    Article : 122 words
  6. AN ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY.

    "Nature" announces that an investigation of the orbit of the minor planet 1907 XM, which was discovered by Dr. Kopff at Heidelberg on February 10, has been carried out by Dr. E. ...

    Article : 167 words
  7. MURDERED EXPLORER.

    News has been received by the British Foreign Office that the Swiss explorer, M. Walter Volz, whose death was recently reported from West Africa, was killed by rebellious natives. ...

    Article : 153 words
  8. NAT GOODWIN RETIRES.

    Mr. Nat Goodwin, well-known throughout Australia, is leaving the stage for life in a western mining camp. With a humor which everybody who knows the ...

    Article : 99 words
  9. £20,300 FOR A HUSBAND.

    All American records of damages for the loss of life have been broken by a verdict of the United States Supreme Court, awarding 101,789 dollars (over £20,300) to Mrs. Sarah L. E. Read, ...

    Article : 123 words
  10. DOGS AT DINNER PARTIES.

    The latest fashionable fad among ladies is to take their pet dogs to dinner parties. If her Pekinese or Po[?] is not included in the invitation the smart woman declines that dinner and ...

    Article : 140 words
  11. NEW TYPEWRITING RECORD.

    Mr. James Wright, the Newcastle (Eng.) typist who in London a few months ago beat all typewriting records by doing 105 words in a minute and 82 words a minute over a period of an hour. ...

    Article : 84 words
  12. WOMAN V. BURGLAR.

    A young lady had a desperate struggle with a den, Miss Kidd, Mr. Boden's step-daughter, heard burglar at Styal, a Cheshire village. At Oakdene, the residence of Mr. Joseph Bo ...

    Article : 105 words
  13. BEES ON LADY'S FACE.

    Whilst Miss Richards, of Mabe, Cornwall, was watching her bees, a swarm suddenly settled on her face and neck. Fortunately, she had courage enough to allow them to remain undisturbed, and ...

    Article : 61 words
  14. GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER.

    The French phrase, "My son, go and tell your daughter that the daughter of her daughter is crying." can be repeated by M. J. Wull[?]hleger, 92 years old, of the village of Lutry, in the ...

    Article : 47 words
  15. SMART RETORT.

    In a small village school, not 50 miles from Sydney, the first standard was being examined in arithmetic. Teacher: "Tom, what is one and one?" ...

    Article : 53 words
  16. LOUD EFFECTS.

    Stranger (happening along): "Boys, what are you burning these ghastly colored lights for? What do you mean by carrying those ugly banners and smearing paint on the sidewalk?" ...

    Article : 60 words
  17. HAD BEEN.

    She: "Why, W[?]e, those trousers look as if you had been sleeping in them." He: "I have. I wore them in church last Sunday." ...

    Article : 27 words
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